The Astros have $800,000 in total payroll commitments vs $210,130,953 for the dodgers

[sexicano31]

how many championships do those teams have in the last 5 years again?

3

[abe_froman]

3

3

no,its 2.the yanks have one and phillies do to

[Teufelshunde4]

The Astros suck.

Right now after 5 years of neglect by Drayton Maclane.. Give front office some time to rebuild from the ground up. The Astro's have a very large market to support the team.. They will be a factor at some point in near future..

[stupidmop]

SO WHO THINKS WE NEED A SALARY CAP!!!????

---just kidding--I don't care to beat that horse again and again . . .

[JoeDirt05]

RT @JeffPassan: Dodgers have $210,130,953 in commitments for players on their roster. The Astros have $800,000"
Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan
For those wondering if that's real, here is Astros' current balance sheet: http://bit.ly/XE4gWD . Only Phil Humber, at $800K, under contract

WOW

ill still take the astros to win it all before the dodgers do

[vtmet]

They should make a rule change where a team loses it's first round draft pick if they purposely dump all their salaried players and drop below a certain salary threshold...

[The 6-4-3]

Give em like 4-7 years

[whitesoxfan83]

I think it's beautiful... no other sport allows such parity.

There's nothing to guarantee the Dodgers will be the better team in 3 years.

[Teufelshunde4]

They should make a rule change where a team loses it's first round draft pick if they purposely dump all their salaried players and drop below a certain salary threshold...

That would only penalize a team like the Stro's who are legit in efforts to rebuild.. If it was tied to behavior the Marlins demonstrated in the last year I agree..But not on Stro's..

[gotoHcarolina52]

The Marlins are jealous...

lol

sad but so true

[Halladay]

The Phillies have 1, have played in 2, and the Dodgers just started spending in August.

3

3

no,its 2.the yanks have one and phillies do to

Don't drink and post.

[jonnydanger1]

Anyone trying to say there isn't a connection with spending money and winning is a complete moron. Can someone explain why there shouldn't be a salary cap?

[Jeffy25]

Anyone trying to say there isn't a connection with spending money and winning is a complete moron. Can someone explain why there shouldn't be a salary cap?

Considering we have had this discussion 15 times on here, no. No one should have to explain it any longer.

http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/sho...36&postcount=6

Here are the main points

1. MLB has the greatest parity of any other sport by a huge margin
2. MLB is better off having teams like the Yankees and Dodgers go nuts adding payroll like they do.
3. the MLB is far better off economically by allowing a free market to exist
4. We have revenue sharing and a luxury tax, if you want to fix anything, fix those.
5. The Marlins trade happened because the MLB doesn't force NTC, when they probably should for all veterans of so many years.
6. You would think after the several recent years of teams doing awesome with no payrolls, you would think this topic would stop getting brought up. The A's, O's, Rays, Reds....these are small payroll teams, and they do well.
7. The players have a right to earn as much money as they can, considering their path to success is so long, and they have so little control over what happens to them.
8. If you are mad at anybody. Don't be made at the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox. Be mad at the bad organizations who don't spend money and collect revenue sharing.
9....and this is the biggest one.


Spending does not equate to winning in baseball, so imposing an arbitrary spending figure to force teams to carry a payroll amount and limiting what they can and can't spend will not help teams. The best players will still go to teams like the Yankees because they want to win. Not because they get paid the most. A salary cap is nothing short of an artificial financial threshold where you are passing dollars from the players to the owners and taking leverage away from the players.



And it won't ever happen, our players union is way too strong now.


Now, here are the links to previous threads saying the same things

http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/sho...ght=salary+cap
http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/sho...ght=salary+cap
http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/sho...ght=salary+cap
http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/sho...ght=salary+cap
http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/sho...ght=salary+cap
http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/sho...ght=salary+cap

[Pinstripe pride]

do they even qualify as an MLB team? god help them in the american league. god help them

[gaughan333]

They should make a rule change where a team loses it's first round draft pick if they purposely dump all their salaried players and drop below a certain salary threshold...

gonna start fining teams for giving a player the day off too?